# Help identify 70's chocolate candy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542 "2010-04-01T06:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/1 "2010-04-01T06:03:19Z")
I remember a small chocolate that melted almost instantly in your mouth. They were real creamy. This was the mid 1970’s. As I recall the name was something like Chocolate Ice or Freeze they were about 2 inches long and 1/4 inch thick. closet thing they sell today is the andes mint. It doesn’t melt like the candy from the 70’s. [http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/andes\_mints\_dessert\_indulgence](http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/andes_mints_dessert_indulgence) I’ve never found chocolate like that since. The instant it hit your tongue it melted. Yet, it didn’t melt in the wrapper on the store counter. They would melt in your pocket. 😉 Anyone recall these and the correct name? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/2 "2010-04-01T06:48:31Z")
I’ve been trying to remember. This candy may have been sold from a cooler. It’s been so long ago. I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/3 "2010-04-01T07:33:34Z")
I don’t know about the candy in the 70s, but the way you described it melting in your mouth reminds me of a popular chocolate candy in Asia, [Meiji’s Meltykiss](http://candyaddict.com/blog/2006/01/03/review-meltykiss/). Each little chocolate comes in an individual foil wrapper, and when opened you find it’s not smooth on the surface (like the Andes chocolate), but powdery; almost like a little block of tiramisu. ---
**Author:** ![pojimba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@pojimba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pojimba)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/4 "2010-04-01T08:31:10Z")
Sounds like [Icy Squares](Icy Squares) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/5 "2010-04-01T08:46:39Z")
> [@pojimba](#): > > Sounds like [Icy Squares](Icy Squares) [AKA Ice Cubes, apparently](http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/ice_cubes/). And they are VILE, yet somehow terribly addictive. I used to hate when Mom bought them, because I would grab a handful and eat them, find them unpleasant…and come back for more. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/6 "2010-04-01T13:39:17Z")
Thanks! I haven’t seen those in thirty years. I knew there had to be a lot of fat in them. From what I recall they were very creamy/slick in the mouth. I may order a box for old times. The Japanese meltykiss sounds good too. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/7 "2010-04-02T02:09:56Z")
Icee Squares. You can get 'em by the bagful for a buck at my local Dollarama. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/8 "2010-04-02T13:40:34Z")
Ice Cubes, definitely. It’s the hazelnut paste that does it, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/9 "2010-04-02T13:52:14Z")
I loved Ice Cubes back in the '60s; seldom saw them after that. They cost 2¢ (back when regular candy bars were still 5¢) and were sold from a bin on the counter of my local Quick-E Mart equivalent. Mmmm, melty. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/10 "2010-04-02T15:06:17Z")
I often see them in plastic jars on gas station counters. Although I don’t actually remember the last time I saw them, what with paying at the pump and all now. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/11 "2010-04-02T15:18:06Z")
I still see those around, they hardly cost anything. They are bizarrely yummy and icky at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/12 "2010-04-02T17:58:24Z")
The first time I came across these were in their incarnation as Icy Cups. The chocolate was inside an open-top piece of brightly coloured foil (think the paper cup under a Reese Peanut Butter Cup, but much smaller, about the diameter of a nickel with higher sides, somewhat like a cupcake paper), You pulled down on opposing “sides” with your thumbs to expose the chocolate, which you then emptied into your mouth. Like someone else said, “Mmmm…melty”! The cost? A whopping 1 cent. The foil came in bright blue, red, yellow-green, pink, dark turquoise, and gold, and it seems to me that the candy itself originated in Switzerland, but maybe I’m remembering it wrong. Nonetheless, the trade name was Moritz : [http://www.regalcandy.com/pages/display.php?i=moritz&n=Moritz%20Icy%20Square](http://www.regalcandy.com/pages/display.php?i=moritz&n=Moritz%20Icy%20Square) Stay away from this guy, though: [CanadianDelicacies Icy Square & Zero Bars.](http://canadiandelicacies.com/ice-chocolate.html) US $12.99 for three bags plus $US14.99 for shipping? Outrageous! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/13 "2010-04-02T20:14:41Z")
That was what I said when opening this thread, too - “Icy Cups! Yeah!” Your post is accurate except you forgot about the part where you lick all the chocolate off the foil cup, **In Winnipeg.** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/14 "2010-04-02T21:16:45Z")
I knew exactly what you were talking about when I read the OP! I knew them as Ice Cubes, and always wondered what happened to them. They were definitely around in the 80’s, that’s when I was getting them. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/15 "2010-04-02T23:59:00Z")
Ice Cubes! I miss those things. I used to buy them for a quarter each, at the liquor store near the gas station a few blocks down the street from my house. Sometimes I’d talk my dad into taking me to the liquor store after putting gas in the car so I could buy some. I wish I could find some now, without having to order them in bulk. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-70s-chocolate-candy/534542/16 "2010-04-03T02:20:40Z")
Ice Cubes…best chocolate ever! Can still find them from time to time, though my local convenience store has to keep them in the cooler because they melt so easily